That's all, folks!

As of Summer 2013, we have stopped producing the Retrode and its accessories. If you want one, get one while our stock lasts – we still have a bunch of everything but no new ones will be made. Why? Because by “we” I really mean “I”, and I have taken on a full-time faculty position that is every bit as time-consuming as it is rewarding on a personal and professional level.
Of course, we’ll continue to provide user support through the usual channels, and the developer team will keep improving the features through occasional firmware updates.

Business folks – if you want to produce your own Retrodes (starts making sense at about 1000 units per batch), please write me with a brief resume of your experience in hardware manufacturing.

Thanks to all customers and contributors for your support!
Matthias Hullin

You should consider posting information on how to recreate the retrode for people who are handy with a soldering iron and ICs If this is the end, well unless someone of course takes this off your hands then just redirect us to the new manufacturer.

I’ve been wanting to buy a Retrode, but just couldn’t afford it (other financial priorities; $80-$90 is a lot of money to drop for an accessory). I’m saddened to read that you’ve stopped producing the Retrode. I hope you will either produce them again in the future, or sell it to someone else who will.

Any chance we get the 2600 adapter released? I could really use one as I have an extensive collection of 2600 carts. I’ve purchased the N64 and GBA adapters, but I haven’t seen a finished product for the 2600 version and I don’t have the resources to fabricate one myself.

Matthias, first of all congratulations to your new faculty position.
I’d like to thank you for all the hard work you’ve put into the Retrode, its plugin-hardware and program code. This is an outstanding product like no other to preserve vintage gaming, and I’m enjoying it a lot for playing my old video games with it. If there are any future updates to your Retrode project, please let us know on Retrode.org. I wish you all the best.

Of course, your personal choice is to be respected, absolutely. Therefore, I’ll just say that if you ever see signs of the project going the abandonware route, please open source it, because, once you do it, it’ll never die.

1. So far, everybody who asked me for the source was given access to the repository. There are already several people actively tinkering with it, and so can you. Open source in the GPL kind of sense? – Na-ah. Please respect this personal choice of mine which, by the way, is not necessarily the final word.

2. I’m not “done with the Retrode”; we’re just no longer producing the device. With several palettes of Retrodes and plug-ins in stock, as well as ongoing product maintenance, the situation couldn’t possibly be further from the abandonware case you’re suggesting.

Exactly, please open Retrode and give it to the community, if you are done with it. There’s no need for yet another abandonware in internet’s history! It doesn’t have to be the end of it, look at the case of MiniMig (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimig)!